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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 2h

Some of it was lightweight racing HOCR dread.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 3h

Clearly I'm grasping at straws, but omg so many feelings.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 3h

Is there an astrological reason why all the men are having feelings tonight?

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 8h

...but I loved having a good range of the same thing available in normal shops.

Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 8h

When I spent time in Hong Kong, I loved that it was pretty normal for a stationery store to sell a wide range of stationery, ranging from cute to art supplies to normal office supplies to high-end planner stuff. I have no idea if it's like that now, and I'm positive people had their favorites...

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winston the third @winston.cc · 11h

how are you personally managing the fact that unsustainably high anxiety is a reasonable response to the current period we are living in?

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 9h

I was also thinking of Tressie and the stamps:

bsky.app/profile/tres...

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

I swear you used to be able to just buy some stamps at a grocery or drug store cashier. Now everyone acts like I’m unwell if I ask do they carry stamps.

I’ve tried three USPS stamp machines. All gone or broken.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 9h

No wonder so many people feel like everything is broken. I was fuming, as I drove from place to place like The Flying Dutchman, that because businesses have idealized and sold a particular kind of frictionless consumer experience, what we now have is non-overlapping experiences, which is brittle.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 9h

There used to be THREE drugstores in that neighborhood. Now there is one, which has been taken over by private equity so anything you might want to buy is locked up in a plastic case.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 9h

The stationery store tried to send me to an art supply store and a different cute things store. I said thank you politely and left, brain broken. There is no longer a functioning drugstore in that neighborhood, otherwise I would have tried them out of sheer desperation.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h

“But she doesn’t tell us what to DO about it 😭😭😭!”

Do something.
Do something with other people.
Do it again.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 18h

Great piece as always from @himself.bsky.social, on authoritarianism as a competitive instance of the coordination problem.

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 10h

I didn't think sticky notes and Pilot G2s counted as a specialty item, but apparently they do?

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 10h

Today's entry in Back In My Day, Stores Carried Things is sticky notes and normal pens. I went to way more places than I wanted to, including a cute stationery store that happened to be near one of my other errands, looking for them before giving up and going to an office supply chain store.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12h

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 12h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 12h

Propaganda in service of the powerful is so lucrative that everyone from social media influencers to the legacy media to the large tech companies want a piece of the action. All the nation’s leaders have either been hired from or converted into propagandists as the first-order way of doing politics

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 13h

ahem @ncdominie.bsky.social do you have a secret stash of photos of Highland cows sleeping on dogs?

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 14h

i could definitely nap on a Newfoundland today!

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 13h

I need pictures of Highland cows napping on a dog.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 15h

So do I, because then I can point to as an example of what we should be doing! I'm very willing to argue that, particularly when we don't have stable lineups with regular coxes, there are all kinds of safety reasons why we need to be able to identify people who aren't safe to carry boats.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 16h

This is part of the "state capacity" story that never gets told. Post-Nixon we gave up on elite accountability and instead kneecapped a lot of state functions because they had repressive potential. Should we make it out of this, I suspect this will intensify.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 16h

See I disagree on this point lol

During McCarthyism we held many powerful people 'accountable'

FDR threw millionaires in prison for hoarding gold.

The thing that broke the dam was Nixon, showing you can be too big to fail.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 21h

My professional timeline right now is made up of four distinct silos wrt the principal global threat/challenge we face, in roughly this order:

1. AI

2. Russia

3. China

4. Climate

I'd reverse the order and eliminate the silos.

But most notably, Trump II has no plan for dealing with any of them.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 16h

I was pretty sure I could manage the weight, because our biggest coach and I have adjusted 8s on racks or slings as a pair, but we were *very* careful and slow. What was terrifying in this case was carrying as one of bow 4 when I had no idea what the other 3 were going to do.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 16h

...heavy things" practice, because this is dangerous. I lift heavy, but one person in bow 4 taking the weight of half the boat could have gone very badly.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 16h

I recently had a very confused 8 where the stern 4 put the boat in the water too fast and the bow 4 nearly dropped it. The only reason why they didn't is that I dug my feet in to slow the movement of the boat until they could get it under control. We really need "picking up and putting down...

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 16h

We spend a lot of time worrying about flip tests, but I really think hearing tests and "ability to overhead press 40 pounds" would be way more useful on a day-to-day level.

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